Detroit's 'Surreal Bowl'

[4morewars]

By Sandy Grady
Wed Feb 1, 6:43 AM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060201/cm_usatoday/detroitssurrealbowl
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"Hard to believe many folks at Wixom will line up for Super Bowl tickets, face value $600-$700 but many selling for $2,700 and up. Nor do I expect laid-off Wixom workers will be found in Ford Field's 132 suites, where high rollers can sip half-time cognac. An Internet site advertised a 40-person suite for $261,000, The Seattle Times reported - that's in a city where the median house price is $169,000.

They should call this one the Surreal Bowl. And hire Bruce Springsteen to sing his blue-collar anthem, Born in the USA. Or have someone read the Roman poet JuvenaCalculate's lines about "bread and circuses," because a Super Bowl in a job-hurting city echoes the spectacles by Caligula, Claudius and Nero in another empire."

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"By the way, affluent fans may spring for the autographed version of the NFL's book XL: Forty Years of Super Bowls, which weighs 85 pounds, bound in white calfskin, selling for $25,000.

Don't expect Wixom plant outcasts, more worried about unemployment checks, to belly up at the bookstore."

:wtf:
Spending millions on parties for millionaires and billionaires, woops, no money left for the workers !
Maybe some of it will "trickle down ?"

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

1. Layoff Fever vs Playoff Fever...

The Daily Show did a skit on this issue the other night...it was great.

[KamaAina]

2. Naturally the Surreal Bowl will be played at Ford Field.

Against the backdrop of job layoffs, the game will be staged in the dome ironically called Ford Field - its logo emblazoned at the cost of $40 million by Bill Ford Jr. General Motors has laced its headquarters in a 21-story vinyl Super Bowl banner. When the Super Bowl trophy is presented, the official game car on the field will be a GM's Cadillac Escalade sport-utility vehicle, a symbol of ego and excess.

Maybe Wal-Mart -- or the military -- could set up recruiting tables outside. :eyes:

[RB TexLa]

3. You can find tickets around the $800 mark

Granted games are more fun from the boxes but those do go crazy for playoffs and Super Bowls

[meganmonkey]

4. NPR had a bit this morning about the 'party' for the homeless

Essentially a 3 day series of events at the Detroit Rescue Mission to keep the homeless people busy so they won't panhandle. As one man pointed out, it is the first time the city has funded something like that, and he expects it to be the last. Not that the city has money coming out of its ears, but he had a very good point.


"Detroit Homeless Call Super Bowl Party Short-Term Fix"

http://www.wdetfm.org/article.php?id=945&cat=9